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On a Budget

These budget-cooking recipes are easy and inexpensive to make. Many are Mediterranean-style recipes, which are healthy and nourishing. It can be very difficult to find the time and energy to cook healthy food on a tight budget. I have focused on affordable ingredients and easy preparations here, as well as foods you can make ahead for the week.

Overhead shot of a white bowl filled with fresh heirloom tomato salad topped with basil. Bowl rests on a wooden cutting board on a white marble background, with large fresh heirloom tomatoes, a linen towel, and a slice of lemon on the side.

Heirloom Tomato Salad

Horizontal shot of a colorful salad with fork and cloth napkin, second dish of salad and large glass salad bowl with towel in background, on a grey marble surface.

Judy Garland’s Favorite Salad

Vertical wide shot of trenette al pesto - delicious pasta recipe with trenette or linguine pasta, potatoes, and green beans in a white bowl on a marble counter. Lemon and basil with towel in background.

Trenette al Pesto – Ligurian Pasta

Horizontal shot of two short glasses filled with a frozen watermelon rum cocktail, garnished with fresh mint. Slices of watermelon sit on top of a wooden cutting board on the left side.

Watermelon Rum Cocktail

Square image - Two white bowls filled with grilled vegetable salad, a mix of grilled zucchini, squash, asparagus, corn, tomatoes, lettuce and basil with lemony basil dressing. A fork sits off to the right side, a large bowl of the same salad in the background.

Grilled Vegetable Salad

Close up shot of a large bowl filled with crunch pickled salad. A wooden bowl and blue striped napkin sit off to the right side. To the left there is a bunch of fresh radishes.

Crunchy Pickled Salad

Featured square shot - wide shot of candied lemon peels on a small wood cutting board on marble counter. Large peels, small peels, peels dipped in white chocolate. White linen towel in background.

How to Make Candied Lemon Peels

Square Crop - Plate with four grilled Mediterranean Turkey Burgers with onion slices, tomato slices and a bed of fresh green lettuce. Hummus, pita chips, and a dish of olives in the background.

Mediterranean Turkey Burgers

Square crop: Glass dish of hollandaise on a marble countertop, lemon sliced and blue linen towel in background.

Julia Child’s Easy Blender Hollandaise Sauce

Square Crop - Strawberry Simple Syrup in a white dish on a white marble background with fresh strawberries.

Homemade Strawberry Syrup

Square crop - bowl filled with fresh Israeli Salad with Feta, tomatoes, cucumbers and bell peppers. Mint and lemon in the background, cloth napkin and wooden spoon beside the bowl.

Israeli Salad With Feta Cheese and Mint

Square crop - plate of spaghetti pasta with pomodoro sauce topped with basil and parmesan, cloth napkin with utensils beside it, another plate of pasta, parmesan block and fresh basil in background.

Audrey Hepburn’s Favorite Spaghetti al Pomodoro

Horizontal shot of two jars of chicken stock on a blue surface with cloth napkin and soup ladling spoon.

How to Make Chicken Stock – The Ultimate Guide

Two chicken schnitzel breasts on a white plate with Israeli salad and lemon slices on a marble countertop, parsley in background.

Chicken Schnitzel

Frontal horizontal shot of roasted cauliflower in a dish resting on a small wood board with red fabric in background.

How to Roast Cauliflower

Bowl of colorful rainbow salad with peppers, cucumbers, mushrooms and cabbage in a white bowl with glass dish of lemon juice, carafe of olive oil and blue napkin with wooden spoon in the background.

Rainbow Salad

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